TPC
Wrenching Dad
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A long time ago, I was walking into the Albertsons On De Los Arboles ( or was it Flores?) in Thousand Oaks.
A chick walked up and asked if our family would be interested in product testing?
What the hey, I said yes and 2 weeks later my daughter, 8 at the time, was testing Barbie computers for $200.
We also tested bottle'd wine coolers for 3 months and recieved boatloads of Bartyle and James, Toms and several others.
Got paid for that too.
Then it was the bubble gum with the liquid inside. $100 and all you could chew through.
Daughter got $75 for testing super sour radioactive battery acid flavor candies. That stuff was brutal, I mean I'd wager your could strip a Earl Scheib paint job off a car with that stuff,, but she loved it.
Then she followed up with a last ditch effort by Polaroid to keep an instant camera on the market.
She got $225, and cases of film and several different cameras to blast away with.
GM had learned through product research that their mid 90's truck dashboards sucked.
Remember all the screwy square pushbutton controls? No fresh air option ect.
Wife made $300 in a two hours test-a-thon with many other moms that has led to the excellent dashboard that GM has today.
Those girls were a tough crowd, but GM felt that moms/wives have a major say in the selection, and if chix hate it, they won't get bit by the same dog twice.
Ya ever get involved in product testing?
A chick walked up and asked if our family would be interested in product testing?
What the hey, I said yes and 2 weeks later my daughter, 8 at the time, was testing Barbie computers for $200.
We also tested bottle'd wine coolers for 3 months and recieved boatloads of Bartyle and James, Toms and several others.
Got paid for that too.
Then it was the bubble gum with the liquid inside. $100 and all you could chew through.
Daughter got $75 for testing super sour radioactive battery acid flavor candies. That stuff was brutal, I mean I'd wager your could strip a Earl Scheib paint job off a car with that stuff,, but she loved it.
Then she followed up with a last ditch effort by Polaroid to keep an instant camera on the market.
She got $225, and cases of film and several different cameras to blast away with.
GM had learned through product research that their mid 90's truck dashboards sucked.
Remember all the screwy square pushbutton controls? No fresh air option ect.
Wife made $300 in a two hours test-a-thon with many other moms that has led to the excellent dashboard that GM has today.
Those girls were a tough crowd, but GM felt that moms/wives have a major say in the selection, and if chix hate it, they won't get bit by the same dog twice.
Ya ever get involved in product testing?
